Keeping The Love Alive! || Cox Vlogs

If you missed my previous post.. ---> "Do Kids Ruin Relationships?"
My last video was about how kids can effect a relationship...
So this video is blog footage of our weekend getaway and a few tips on how to keep the love alive!

Hope you enjoy!This is my follow up video to that :)






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Gay Rights {A World So Hateful}

This post is NOT a debate on whether being "gay" is wrong or right.

Any hateful, rude, & ignorant comments about gays will NOT be published.

Im not going to talk about my opinion on it, & i dont want to hear your opinion on it.

What i AM going to talk about..

is RIGHTS. And DOING right.

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Once upon a time, many years ago, black people were considered "dirty" "scum" "of the devil". They were beaten down and robbed of their humanity. Treated like dirt. They were "property" rather than people. (UGH i cant even hold back my tears).

One day, people opened up their eyes and realized its NOT right. We are to ALL be treated EQUAL!

This world is filled with so much hate! So much pain!

NO MATTER THE SITUATION, when did it become ok??

Whether you agree or disagree with gay marriage, support or dont support gay marriage.. what gives you the right to control other people's rights?!

Discrimination is NOT ok! Live your own life!

Why do people go OUT OF THEIR WAY, to go control someone else's rights? How does it effect you in any way?!

This is 2013 people! Times change! Get over it and move on with your life!

"Kids are walkin' around the hallway
Plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful
Some would rather die
Than be who they are"

It absolutely breaks my heart to think of the pain and agony that people have to endure just because of their sexuality.
Im not stating if i support or dont support, cuz i dont want this post to be a debate and i dont want people to bust out their bibles and start beating others down with bible verses. I dont care. I dont care about your opinion, and you dont care about mine.

My POINT of this post... is WE ARE ALL EQUALS! Love one another. No one is higher or lower than the person next to them! Whether its tattoos, piercings, gender, race, sexuality.. WE ARE ALL EQUAL! We are all human beings and deserve to all be treated the same!

Where is the love and compassion in your heart?! Dont agree with same sex attraction, THATS FINE! But you can still treat that person just like anyone else. You can still show them decency and civility. You dont have to be religious to be a decent loving person. And you dont have to use religion as a reason to not be a decent loving person.

Lets wrap this up with a quote from an amazing friend of mine.
and a random quote on FB.

"supporting a law to be passed so that we all have the same rights DOES NOT mean you don't believe in God. If you like your freedom of religion, speech and the right to marry who you love, you should only want the same for everyone else. Being FOR equality doesn't mean you have to be friends with homosexuals, have them in your life or ever talk to them, it just means you believe in the freedom this country once stood for. HOMOSEXUALITY is not a disease, its not contagious and its not anyone's job to judge. We should love one another and fight for our freedom. Religion is there for example in being a better person and loving each other, not a dictatorship. We all believe in different God's or different versions of one God, different religions etc, and we should keep fighting for that freedom!"

"If you dont agree with something then dont partake in the action. We let people drink if they wanna drink, let people swear if they wanna swear, eat junk food if they wanna eat junk food, all items in which affect family life and communities. The debate is making sure families and communities aren't affected by gay marriage. Well if that's the case then let's take fast food away from fat people. Because they are teaching their kids deadly habits. If that's the case then let's take alcohol away because there are parent that abuse alcohol while watching their kids... Bottom line is we should be less concerned about someone loving another human and more concerned about issues in our society that are causing direct harm to people like fast food, drugs, health care system, etc"

Love on people!

Half a DECADE Married......

(all pics in this post are from our dinner date celebrating our 5th anniversary this year)

Its true guys. Ive been married for half a decade!! Jeff and I have almost 7 years together, and 5 years married officially under our belt! On November 10th 2007, i married the love of my life. I was 18, and he was 19. Everyone told us we wouldnt last.. we were too young.. i could do better.. but here we are, 23 and 24 years old, own 3 vehicles, own a house, 2 babies, and 5 years HAPPILY married!

When i met Jeff, I was 16, doing well in high school. Working on getting my CNA (which i accomplished) had college plans. Was working and paying my own car insurance etc. I was the good little "church" girl who had so much going for her. Jeff was 17 years old, a high school drop out working at a tire and lube shop living at his mom's who still made sandwiches for him ;) I understand why people doubted us (especially doubted Jeff), But i saw so much more in Jeff. I fell in love with my little bad boy stereotype with piercings, tattoos and smoked cigarettes. I looked past all the blinders and saw who Jeff was on the inside. A boy who had lived a hard life but despite all that, was a beautiful person who had goals for himself. He wanted to better himself. And i wanted to be there to encourage his journey.

We had MANY bumps in the road, but Jeff was ALWAYS building, growing, bettering himself. He brought out the best in me. I had my own issues. We complimented each other so well. We grew this bond for each other that was so deep. We relied on each other more than anyone can understand. We tried to date other people being as we were so young..but it never felt right. We always went running back to each other within a matter of days.

  By the time we got married, Jeff got his GED, was paying rent in  his mom's legit basement apartment, just got a new job at Pepsi Cola bottling Company that had awesome benefits, yada yada. We got married.. bought a house in 2008, a month later, got pregnant with our daughter Braylee. She was born June 23rd 2009, and 3 years later.. we had our little Bade man, born September 23rd 2012.

Life couldnt get any better. Jeff treats me like his queen, and i'd do anything for that man. We are equally yolked. Step by step, together in unison. I'd be lost without him, no doubt about that. He is the best thing to ever happen to me. He gave me my beautiful children.. im loving our life together and i get this overwhelming happiness and satisfaction picturing our future MANY MANY years together ahead of us. Together forever.

(Bray took the left pic, dont mind my 12 chin.. we werent ready, i was throwing my head back to laugh, and it was an awkward angle haha! Besides! I had just had a baby a month prior.. dont judge me! LOL)

Happy 5th Anniversary babe!

Valentines Day Vlog (Meet the Husband) {V.V}

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Some pics from Valentines day :)

 Are Braylee and Makaibree not the cutest?!

 Making valentines cards for the neighbors :)

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Hope you all had an AMAZING V-DAY!!

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FOOLS In LOVE....

For 6 years :)

Its true.

On February 10th, we celebrated 6 years of being together.

Here is OUR love story.

We met when we were 16 and 17 years old in 2006.

Although how we met wasnt very romantic,

 i think our story is kind of the standard fairy tale/Love story, story line.

Good girl meets bad boy i guess.

The love that wasnt supposed to happen,

opposites attract type of thing.

When i first met Jeff he was NOT my type.

But for SOME reason we were drawn to each other.

Jeff was a little troubled at the time and my blue personality just wanted to help him out.

To turn his life around :)

And slowly but surely, my plan worked ;)

We were young when we met. Jeff was my first "boyfriend". We tried to date other people for that fact but never really did. It was weird. We always ended up back together.

Till we finally realized being apart just WASNT an option, we got married November 10th 2007.

Well the rest is history :)

Together forever and always baby :)

Co-Sleeping? No Thanks.

First off, as a disclaimer, just because I dont agree with something, doesnt mean YOU have to agree with me disagreeing (woa what?? lol). AND, i realize co-sleeping with your baby is getting more and more popular, so dont feel like im dissing you, this is just MY input on it.

K lets begin my lovelies. 

I came across this pin on Pinterest.

When Braylee was first born, she had an incident at the hospital that TERRIFIED me that it might happen again. She spit up and had chocked on that "flem" stuff thats babies have in their bellies from being in your uterus. SHE WENT BLUE! Thank HEAVENS the nurse was in the room when it happened and rushed her to the nursery and got her breathing again. 

Needless to say, Braylee slept RIGHT by my bed for the first weeks or so (as most newborns do). 

Then Braylee WOULD NOT sleep at night. She was backwards, so she ended up in bed with me a lot.

Well i did NOT want her to be a co-sleeper so we made sure it didnt become a habbit, and this is my reasonings :)

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• I NEEEED my sleep! Sleep time is MY time. I want to toss, turn, drool, sprawl out, whatever i want!
• Its DANGEROUS, especially when they are still pretty small! You can roll onto your baby and kill them!
• I do NOT want an older kid bugging me and wanting to sleep in mommy and daddy's bed. The older they get, the weirder it is, and the longer they are in your bed, the harder it becomes to GET THEM OUT!
• Yes, co-sleeping might make a special "bond" with your child, especially if you are breastfeeding. But i dont feel like im distant with Braylee. I have a VERY special bond with her actually due to single parenting her the first 3 months of her life.

But lets get to my MOST IMPORTANT point and really the point of WHY i made this post.

(WARNING.. a little bit of adult content is about to follow. Mature, adult, content)

Bed time is my HUBBY time.

My time to reconnect with him, To cuddle, to talk about our day, to talk about serious things that kids dont need to over hear like financial stuff etc. My time to BOND and reconnect with my husband in between the sheets if you know what i mean. Sorry if thats "inappropriate" to talk about but its NO lie, SEX is SOOOOOO important in a marriage. (ill make a separate post about this topic cuz guess what, we are all adults here and can handle it. MMMKAYYY?? lol)

Co-sleeping can create such a huge wedge between a husband and wife! I mean, what do you do when you want to cuddle and have that comfort from your husband? (or fiance, boyfriend, whatev). Kick the baby out? What do you do when you want to brown chicken brown cow? (sex, if you didnt catch on to that). Kick the baby out? Cuz most likely, when you co-sleep, they WILL NOT sleep in their own bed.

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I dunno, just not my cup of tea.

In conclusion. I will NEVER allow Braylee to sleep in my bed on a regular basic or even often. YES, when Braylee is sick, she can come in my bed. If she has a nightmare, YES, she can come in my bed. 

But for little reasons?? No.

Braylee is in a toddler bed. If she randomly starts getting up and coming and crawling into bed with us during the night, i WILL go put her back in bed EVERY time. 

Im NOT getting in that habit haha.

I hope i didnt offend anyone, not my intention.

Just my opinion

Everyone lives their own lives how they see fit.

Do your thing.

:)

(website where i researched some pros and cons found HERE)

Our 4 YEAR Anniversary!

*18 roses in my favorite color :)*

Its so weird to say we've been married for 4 years! Its kinda "wow 4 years already?", and "wow its only been 4 years? Feels like longer!". It probably feels longer cuz we've been together 6 years on February 10th.

Anywho. Usually we keep our anniversary pretty simple. But this year Jeff wanted to do something WAY special. It was supposed to be a surprise but.. i have my ways of getting it out of him :). BUT, i talked him out of it cuz it was WAY expensive and we are going on a week vacation on December that is going to put a dent in our finances. But we agreed to do his initial surprise for our 5 year anniversary! Im so stoked, but im not telling what it is till next year haha.

So this year our best friends, Nikki and Casey, took Braylee for us and we wanted to go to dinner to this place called the Mayan Adventure. Its this place where you eat dinner but you get a "show" at the same time. They have this diving show they do where all these divers dance and do these crazy FAR dives into some water. So we drove for about an hour to get there cuz thats how far away it was. Our gas tank was almost on empty but we were so excited we kept driving till we got there. Luckily we made it lol.

We got there and i was SOOO excited! We pretty much ran up to the doors to go in and IT WAS LOCKED! We got on the website to check the hours and they were supposed to be open. We decided to go get gas while we tried to find a number. Turns out the place like shut down and that their food wasnt good anymore. We were super bummed.


Drove the hour back and was STARVING by this point but we kept laughing about it all and decided to go to a Brazilian place called Tuconos. Tuconos is a place that you dont go to often cuz its A LOT of meat to handle. So its perfect for special occasions.

What the do is you get as much salad bar as you want but they recommend to take it easy sense they bring around a lot of meat. Then they are constantly bringing around meat in Scours. MANY YUMMY things. Have you ever seen the kid movie Rio? Well you know how they are out to dinner and the guy brings around a chicken heart. Yea its like that, and yes they too have chicken heart. So gross. But everything else was yummy lol.

When we left i think we had like 10 pounds of meat in our bellies. We were so happy too. Its nice to just get out. I guess you can say we were so "caught up in each other" haha. And jeff had been up sense 3am. Mix that all together... and this is what happens.......

 Standing under this heat lamp cuz it was COOOLD

 In the car with the heat on blast lol

 Being goofy

 THEN... i had a little photo shoot.

Its whatev. :)

 I strategically covered my cleavage. You're welcome

 What can you say haha.

 This is what Jeff was doing during my photo shoot haha

 I dont wear my tinkerbell shirt often so i had to get pics in it lol.

 Then i decided to be annoying and wake Jeff up.

Poor kid lol. He was so tired

 WAKE UP!

Sorry about that last pic.. I thought i was doing good covering with the blankets haha. Guess not. The pic was cute though so get over it, its just cleavage. We all got it, even guys haha.

Needless to say i had an AWESOME anniversary! Im still so in love with this man!

Lastly

Some bloggy news.

I might be starting something new here on my blog..

Have you ever heard of "vlogging vednesdays" on Adelines Daddy..

Well i might be continuing that..

So this week i want to test it out...

I figure i might be doing this by myself for a few weeks but regardless, every wednesday i will be posting a vlog with a linky that you can link your vlog too! Its really fun but we'll see how it goes.

This weeks theme will be "A day in the Life". Make a video post of a day in the life of.... what ever you choose. A day in the life of a college student. A day in the life of a photographer. A day in the life of a business mom. A day in the life of an adult movie film star... TOTALLY  KIDDING!! Keep it G rated :)

So get your videos ready!

And if this turns out successful, i will be taking on Vlogging Vednesdays!